I · The Farm
Eighty and a half acres of steep ground.
A former tobacco farm in Marshall, in the hills above the French Broad.
The farm once grew tobacco. Most of the land is steep, and much of it is wooded, with springs coming out of the hillsides.
Since 2023 it has been farmed by organic and biodynamic methods. It is not certified. The methods are kept because of what they do to the ground, and the ground is slow to answer.
Goats and Shetland sheep work the open slopes. Chickens follow them. The first acre of vineyard is terraced and goes into the ground in the spring of 2027.

Plate 2 · photograph to comeThe tobacco barn, from the outside.
- Place
- Marshall, Madison County, North Carolina
- Ground
- 80.5 acres, once in tobacco
- Methods
- Organic and biodynamic since 2023, not certified
- Animals
- Goats, Shetland sheep, chickens
- Vines
- The first acre, planted spring 2027

More to come.